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Tables of Contents for Telicity in the Second Language
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Acknowledgments
xiii
 
Aspect and theories of second language acquisition
1
20
Introduction
1
2
Aspectual distinctions
3
3
Some terminology: Telicity and boundedness
3
2
Why Study aspect?
5
1
Theoretical framework
6
3
Semantic universals
7
1
Parameters
8
1
Theories of access to UG
9
12
UG is not active in adulthood
10
4
Direct access
14
2
L1 grammar as the initial hypothesis
16
5
Semantic and syntatic treatments of telicity
21
42
Introduction
21
1
More terminology
21
4
Aspectual classes
21
2
Tests
23
2
Aspectual semantics
25
16
Dowty's (1979) aspectual calculus
25
2
Sub-event structure
27
8
Aspect construal
35
6
Aspect in syntax
41
21
Tenny (1987, 1994)
41
5
Hale and Keyser (1992, 1993)
46
6
Travis (1992, 1994)
52
4
Borer (1994, 1998)
56
6
Conclusion
62
1
English and Slavic telicity: A syntactic account
63
40
Introduction
63
1
English phrase structure templates
64
7
The aspect-related constructions
71
11
On a unified account of resultatives, particles, and double objects
72
1
Resultatives, particles, and double objects are unified on the basis of aspect
73
5
Double object may not be part of the cluster
78
4
The encoding of Slavic VP aspect
82
10
The complete array of aspectual morphemes
82
5
Preverbs and verb class
87
1
The phrase structure position of preverbs: Evidence from VP-internal scope
88
4
What can be explained if preverbs are higher than the derived object position?
92
7
Perfective and imperfective VPs in the scope of negation
92
2
Verbal versus nominal markers of temporal boundary
94
2
Pinon's (1993) ambiguity problem
96
3
The telicity parameter and the aspect-related constructions in English and Bulgarian: Bringing it all back together again
99
2
Conclusion
101
2
First and second language acquisition of aspect
103
40
Introduction
103
1
First language acquisition research on Aspect
104
10
The early primacy of aspect hypothesis
104
2
Against the primacy of aspect hypothesis
106
2
The late primacy of aspect hypothesis
108
4
Against the late primacy of aspect hypothesis
112
2
Second language acquisition of aspect
114
11
Criticism of the primacy of aspect hypothesis
125
7
Defective tense versus relativized defective tense
125
1
Competence versus performance issues
126
2
A new look at the data
128
4
The distributional bias hypothesis
132
3
Viewpoint aspect versus situation aspect
135
2
The template approach to language acquisition
137
3
Acquisition of the cluster of aspect-related constructions
140
2
Conclusion
142
1
An experimental study of the L2 acquisition of telicity
143
30
Introduction
143
1
Research questions
143
3
The telicity marking parameter summarized
146
1
Specific hypotheses
147
1
Participants
148
2
Assessment of proficiency levels
150
2
Methodology
152
4
The Aspect task
152
2
The Translation task
154
1
The Grammaticality Judgement task
155
1
The Stories task
156
1
Results
156
16
The Aspect task
157
3
The Translation task
160
3
The Grammaticality Judgement task
163
7
The Stories task
170
2
Conclusion
172
1
Discussion, implications, and conclusion
173
26
Introduction
173
1
Summary of the result
173
2
Evidence for and against specific hypotheses
175
17
Hypothesis I: Transfer of L1 values
175
6
Hypothesis II: Resetting is possible
181
3
Hypothesis III: Acquisition of aspect co-occurs with acquisition of the related constructions
184
4
Hypothesis IV: All three related constructions cluster in interlanguage
188
4
Access to UG --- in what way?
192
1
The Trigger for the telicity marking parameter
193
2
Discussion of experimental tasks and materials
195
1
Summary of findings and directions for future research
196
2
Conclusion
198
1
Appendix
199
16
References
215
16
Index
231